In collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion, the UW Tacoma Library is ecstatic to announce that our award-winning social justice book club, Real Lit[erature], will be reading Water Moon by Samatha Sotto Yambao for Spring Quarter 2025! On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will Read More…
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Introducing UWT Library’s Sensory Friendly Space
As a library one of the main values engrained in our work is accessibility; specifically accessibility to the information and resources needed by the communities we serve. This includes ensuring our spaces are accessible to our communities and, as an academic library, making accessible and welcoming study spaces. At UW Tacoma Library we are excited Read More…
Call for Participation: UWT Library Student Advisory Board
The UW Tacoma Library is launching a new Student Advisory Board! **The deadline to submit interest form extended to Monday, November 28th by 5:00pm!** The UW Tacoma Library facilitates the exploration of academic, personal, and intellectual interests through access to resources, spaces, and research support. In other words, the library exists for YOU, the students Read More…
Updates to Campus on the UW Tacoma Library’s Antiracism Efforts
In June of 2020, the UW Tacoma Library made a public commitment to equity, social justice, and antiracist action. To honor this commitment, the Library has contracted with Archway Consulting Group to facilitate a formal antiracism assessment of the Library’s policies, practices, work culture, and internal bias. The goal of this assessment is to gain Read More…
Art and library values: Taking down The Record Keeper blanket.
In March 2020, I began a project for my Master of Library and Information Science degree to inventory, research, and evaluate the artwork displayed in the UW Tacoma Library. I received support for this work from the Library because we knew that the Learning Commons building project would significantly change our spaces. One goal Read More…
Going Public: Opening Scholarship to All
Join us for Going Public: Opening Scholarship to All on March 26th from 9am – 12pm, a fully-online symposium about equity in the production of and access to scholarship. Being public is one of the core tenets of the University of Washington. Open scholarship and going public with our research means engaging the broader community Read More…
Reflections and Thoughts on National Leadership
As many colleagues know, I had the honor and privilege of serving as the President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) over the past academic year. ACRL represents more than 10,000 individuals and libraries and develops programs, products, and services to help those working in academic and research libraries learn, innovate, and Read More…
Real Lit[erature] Spring 2019
Real Lit[erature] — UW Tacoma’s fiction based book club co-created by the UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion — is back for Spring 2019, and you won’t want to miss it. The book we’re going to be reading is about clinical depression, being the child of immigrants, finding a sense of Read More…
Save the Date: Real Lit[erature] Author Talk!
Save the Date! The UW Tacoma Library and the Center for Equity and Inclusion are delighted to announce that we are bringing another Real Lit[erature] Author Talk to our campus! Last quarter we skyped with Angie Thomas. This quarter, all are welcome for a thirty minute Q&A conversation with Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus. The Read More…
Impressions from the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting (2019)
So.Many.Books. So.Many.People. From January 25th-January 29th, 2019, the American Library Association (ALA) held its annual Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Across multiple hotels and conference centers, downtown Seattle saw an influx of library workers from public, school, and academic libraries and of vendors promoting books, services, mobile apps, and products, and authors: so.many.authors! There is no Read More…